Fly shirt

ABSTRACT

This disclosure relates generally to a drawstring closure that allows the user to pull up the shirt when needed. In multiple sports women find the need to pull their shirt over their chest because of the heat or other reasons—for example cheerleading. The shirt will allow women to conveniently pull their shirt up, they can pull the draw string and the shirt will stay up on their chest.

BACKGROUND Field of the Invention

This invention relates to garments, and particularly to articles ofclothing commonly incorporate drawstring for pulling the shirt up.

Description of the Related Art

Articles of clothing commonly incorporate elastic bands. Additionally,many of these items with elastic also utilize a drawstring for pullingthe clothing tightly around the body. In certain circumstances multiplesport shirts are needed in the case of a race, where the race begins inthe morning when temperatures are cool or cold and continues into theday were temperatures warm and can become hot. Not only can temperatureschange, but also the runners own body temperature will change and heatup during the course of a run. Therefore runner may require moreclothing at the beginning of a run but less clothing later in the run.

In races, such as a marathon, runners have been known to wear old longsleeve or sweatshirts over another shirt at the beginning of a race. Asthe ambient air temperate rises and/or as the runner's body temperaturerises, the runner takes off the long sleeve or sweatshirt and discardsthe long sleeve or sweatshirt on the side of the race course. Often suchdiscarded clothing is never retrieved later by the runner. Instead thediscarded shirts must be collected by volunteers and disposed of.

U.S. Pat. No. 6,298,485 discloses a cycling jersey with removablesleeves. However, the '485 patent fails to disclose the quick releasezippers to allow ease of sleeve removal during use.

However, to Applicant's knowledge, none of these prior art methods havebeen found to be completely suitable to meet these needs and arecumbersome and non-durable. In multiple sports women find the need topull their shirt over their chest because of the heat or otherreasons—for example cheerleading. When girls stunt they like to pulltheir shirt over the chest so that the bases (people lifting them) canget a better contact with a skin on their hips which increases thefriction and allows for a better toss. When women pull the shirt overthe chest, most of the time the regular shirts fall back down becausethere's nothing to prevent them from falling down. Hence, the inventorof the present invention proposes to resolve and surmount existenttechnical difficulties and to eliminate the aforementioned shortcomingsof prior art. The overall combination of these features is nowheredisclosed in the prior art cited above which appears to berepresentative of the general art in this area although it is notintended to be an all-inclusive listing of pertinent prior art patents.

SUMMARY

In light of the disadvantages of the prior art, the following summary isprovided to facilitate an understanding of some of the innovativefeatures unique to the present invention and is not intended to be afull description. A full appreciation of the various aspects of theinvention can be gained by taking the entire specification, claims,drawings, and abstract as a whole.

According to a first embodiment the invention is an athletic shirt witha drawstring on the bottom and a graphic design on the inside of theshirt. When girls stunt they like to pull their shirt over the chest sothat the bases (people lifting them) can get a better contact with askin on their hips which increases the friction and allows for a bettertoss. When women pull the shirt over the chest, most of the time theregular shirts fall back down because there's nothing to prevent themfrom falling down. With this shirt, when women pull their shirt up, theycan pull the draw string and the shirt will stay up on their chest.There's also a design on the inside of the shirt so when the shirt isflipped inside out, one can still see a design.

A primary object of this invention is to provide a shirt with adrawstring which is configured to be pulled such that the shirts rollsto the chests for a better contact of bases (people lifting them) handwith the skin of the athlete.

This Summary is provided merely for purposes of summarizing some exampleembodiments, so as to provide a basic understanding of some aspects ofthe subject matter described herein. Accordingly, it will be appreciatedthat the above-described features are merely examples and should not beconstrued to narrow the scope or spirit of the subject matter describedherein in any way. Other features, aspects, and advantages of thesubject matter described herein will become apparent from the followingDetailed Description, Figures, and Claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying figures, where like reference numerals refer toidentical or functionally similar elements throughout the separateviews, together with the detailed description below, are incorporated inand form part of the specification, and serve to further illustrateembodiments of concepts that include the claimed invention, and explainvarious principles and advantages of those embodiments.

FIG. 100 shows the un-pulled schematic view of the shirt.

FIG. 200 shows pulled up view of shirt using drawstring.

Skilled artisans will appreciate that elements in the figures areillustrated for simplicity and clarity and have not necessarily beendrawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements inthe figures may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help toimprove understanding of embodiments of the present invention.

The apparatus and method components have been represented whereappropriate by conventional symbols in the drawings, showing only thosespecific details that are pertinent to understanding the embodiments ofthe present invention so as not to obscure the disclosure with detailsthat will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the arthaving the benefit of the description herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Before explaining the invention in detail, it is to be understood thatthe invention is not limited in its application to the detail ofconstruction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the drawings sincethe invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced orcarried out in various ways. It is also to be understood that thephraseology or terminology employed is for the purpose of descriptiononly and not of limitation.

Considering the advances the Invention is an athletic shirt with adrawstring on the bottom and a graphic design inside the shirt. Inmultiple sports women find the need to pull their shirt over theirchest. When girls stunt they like to pull their shirt over the chest sothat the people lifting them can get a better contact with a skin ontheir hips which increases the friction and allows for a better toss.When women pull the shirt over the chest, most of the time the regularshirts fall back down because there's nothing to prevent them fromfalling down. With this shirt, when women pull their shirt up, they canpull the draw string and the shirt will stay up on their chest. There'salso a design on the inside of the shirt so when the shirt is flippedinside out, one can still see a design.

Referring now to FIG. 100 which shows plan view of the unpulled shirtnormally when dressed. Similarly FIG. 200 shows another view of theshirt when pulled up for a better friction.

The use of the invention is simple without any tedious effort. When theuser desire to pull the shirt over his chest he pull the draw string (orVelcro it down or align the magnets) so that the shirt stays up.

With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized thatthe optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of the invention, toinclude variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and mannerof operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obviousto one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to thoseillustrated in the drawings and described in the specification areintended to be encompassed by the present invention.

The Abstract of the Disclosure is provided to allow the reader toquickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It issubmitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpretor limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in theforegoing Detailed Description, it can be seen that various features aregrouped together in various embodiments for the purpose of streamliningthe disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted asreflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require morefeatures than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as thefollowing claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than allfeatures of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus, the following claimsare hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claimstanding on its own as a separately claimed subject matter.

The present invention is an athletic shirt comprising: 1) A shirt withdesign inside the shirt so when the shirt is flipped inside out itsstill visible. 2) Draw string for keeping a shirt not to fall down whenuser pull it over his chest, when user pull it over his chest it ensuresthe shirt stays there.